Synology

Synology NAS are the perfect companion to running Home Assistant. But by default, the DSM Reverse Proxy does not configure its NGINX settings to allow WebSocket, and some extra configuration will be required to get the Home Assistant frontend working with the DSM.

Template change

To allow WebSocket by default for all service exposed by NGINX, you can enable it in the template file located in /usr/syno/share/nginx/Portal.mustache. Please be really careful in editing this file since you may break access to the DSM UI. Please backup this file before any edition.

Open /usr/syno/share/nginx/Portal.mustache and add the followings in the Location section: